WE LOOK SO GOOD TOGETHER 2

I pull Evan by the wrist, away from the kitchen, away from Aryan, and I can feel his questioning gaze burning a hole into the back of my head but I don’t dare turn around.

“What do you mean? What do you know?” I ask once I was sure he wouldn’t hear us,

“It is obvious you are in love with him, I don’t understand why you are hiding it.”

Panic flows through my blood stream,

“You think he knows?”

He shakes his head, “Don’t you know men? They are usually the last to know about your feelings.”

My shoulders deflate, I realized I was poised to start running, my flight or fight response was broken, the only response my body knew was flight.

“Anyway, you knowing doesn’t mean anything, the girl I met on the plane knows.”

“Yeah, but she is not in the capacity to do this, is she?” he whipped out something from... let us not think about where he whipped it out of.

“What is that?” I ask, unwilling to touch it.

“It would have been a movie ticket or something similar if I knew what tastes you gu